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First of all, welcome everyone. When we speak about Yoga in Daily Life, what do we think about? This is a very nice question to begin with. When we think of Yoga in Daily Life, we are thinking of the divine light of Mahāprabhujī. It is a blessing of our spiritual lineage and all other holy saints. Many of you know we spoke about our holy lineage. In short, I would like to tell it once more. Our spiritual lineage begins from Lord Śiva, and the science of yoga is brought by Lord Śiva. Śiva is the first one as a creation on this planet. Śiva is known as Swayambhu. No one has created him; it is he who has manifested himself. Śiva came many times in many forms. Also, it is said the king of the Himalayas was also known as Śiva. The Śiva about which we are speaking has his holy seat in the Himalayas, Mount Kailash. Numerous sciences on this planet come through his knowledge or through him: the science of mantras, the science of yoga, the science of the creation, the nature, the spirituality, and so on. Afterwards, many other holy incarnations or holy saints have worked on this and made the research work. According to their experiences, they wrote differently and described differently, but the essence is the same, the one. We are here in Strilky Āshram. Some come from Slovakia, some from Poland, some from Austria, some came from Prague, from Ostrava, from Olomouc, from Budapest, Debrecen, Košice, and so on. Our target or our aim or our destination was Mahāprabhujī's āshram, Strilky. A person who came from Prague went through different experiences on the way: different landscape, different cities, different traffic situations, different nature. A person who came from Budapest experienced different things. A person who came from Austria, from Vienna, experienced the different names of the cities, different parts of the countryside, and so on. Similarly, with one aim—to come to the supreme—all practitioners are the God-realized souls who went through this path to oneness through different directions, which means different experiences. So, that you may call in different ways: spirituality, yoga, and then after, one divided yoga into more parts, then it's called this yoga, that yoga, this yoga, and that. But it is a blessing of oneness, Lord Śiva. Now, besides Śiva, as I spoke yesterday, there is also what is called Śakti, the power. Kṛṣṇa mentioned that whenever he manifests in this world, he manifests himself through the yoga śakti. So here again, the śakti. Therefore, the copyright of that supreme part of the yoga is Lord Śiva. Now, his preachings and his explanation may be said is Sanātana Dharma. Sanātana means eternal, and Sanātana means that all is related to one. There is only one God, that is Īśvara or Parameśvara. Īśvara is that power of the God consciousness or God which is governing this sun system. Parameśvara is which is governing the entire universe where there are thousands of different sun systems. Ātmā is governing this body of an individual being, that what we call the ātmā. But all ātmā, Paramātmā or ātmā, Īśvara and Parameśvara is the one. Sanātana Dharma, eternal religion, means it is not made by any human. It follows, it believes the universal principles and to respect the law of the nature. It means to lead life in harmony with the nature. It is advised when you live in the family, you should live in harmony with the family. So Vasudeva Kuṭumbakam, it is said the entire world is one family. And this family has many different family members. It may be the birds or animals or other creatures. Maybe it is the forest, the trees, the grass, the vegetation, what we call, all the creatures in the water, in the air, and so on. If you will not live in harmony, you will be the disturbing factor, and sooner or later you will get back as a revenge of our wrong acting in this part. Therefore, the Sanātana Dharma. Now, this Sanātana Dharma is a Sanātana Paramparā or the Sanātana spiritual lineage. There are many, many spiritual lineages. There are many, many branches. The seed is one, but that seed, when it is sprouted and begins to grow, got a strong trunk, and this trunk is strong is Sanātana Dharma. The seed is the cosmic consciousness, and so this is called a tree, a banyan tree, a mighty tree, and so the trunk is the Sanātana Dharma, and branches are different beliefs, different paths, different religions, or following the different masters. So it is in oneness. That's what we call Sanātana Dharma. And we all believe, follow the Sanātana Dharma. Sanātana Dharma, Sanātana means relation. Sanātana means eternal. Relation of this ātmā to the Paramātmā. It means oneness. In the 15th chapter of Bhagavad Gītā, it is said, "Mame vāso jīva loke jīva bhūta sanātana. O Arjuna, I live in every creature and every creature is this sanātana." They are mine and I am theirs. We are one in all. And Sanātana Dharma said, let them believe and develop as they like. Now, after this Sanātana Dharma paramparās, which is going for millions of years, we cannot remember all, only we can remember our origin is Lord Śiva. Viṣṇu is the energy which takes care, Brahmā manifests, and Śiva either manifests himself or liberates all. So Śiva-Śakti is in everything, in Brahmā, in Viṣṇu. And therefore Śiva means consciousness, Śiva means liberation, Śiva means truth, and Śiva means beauty. --- Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Seminar